The Doctor's Favourite Companions! (McGann/ Eccleston/ Tennant eras)

Grace Holloway - A ho hum character played fairly well, but who cares? The movie was a travesty with Eric Roberts the poison cherry atop a steaming turd. Don't mind him in Heroes though...

Rose Tyler - Hard to wrestle with. She was such a huge focus, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Rose was played very well by Billie Piper, but the character should have left at the end of Parting of the Ways. How do you top someone absorbing the vortex, seeing all space & time & rescuing two people she loves from certain death? YOU DON'T!... that's how you do it. It was a huge comedown with Rose treading water all through season 2. The giggly & awkward relationship with Tennant didn't work anywhere near as well as the intense Eccleston/ Piper dynamic. Her increasingly flippant & know-all attitude started to grate too. That said, her farewell was marvellous & Army Of Ghosts/ Doomsday did give Piper a meatier role. A bridge too far with season 2.

Mickey Smith - Mickey improved over time, partly due to much needed character development & partly due to Noel Clarke's performances lifting after a shaky start. I like that he toughened up & gave up on Rose. I didn't like the silly dialouge he was always lumbered with..."Mickey Smiff!, defendin' the Erf!!". Supposedly he's returning in season 4. If it's without Rose & if he's got his blonde friend in tow, then MAYBE it will be ok...

Jackie Tyler - the 'mouthy Mum from the high rises' stereotype was a bit tired, but Camille played her pretty well. As with Rose, the season 2 stuff didn't work as well for Jackie, but I'm a bit of a softie for Jackie even though I don't believe in 'Domestic Who' generally.

Adam Mitchell - I suppose since I included the briefest of companions Katarina, I should include Adam. He was a bit wet for my liking & only competently played. It was a good decision not to keep him on after the 'Long Game', but then why even bother to carry him over from 'Dalek'. They could have just dropped him off between adventures. It felt pretty pointless.

Capt. Jack Harkness - A walking *^#" with a cheesy vaseline smile. Barrowman isn't the greatest actor & some of Jack's dialouge is often grimace inducing, but I like him. I really shouldn't. He's like a big bag of frosted peanuts. You know..the purple ones. They are bad for the teeth & sickly sweet...but you keep eating them. Once you get past the purple stuff though, there is a wholesome peanut inside. Where am I going with this? I don't even know. He had some lovely moments with Eccleston & his scene with Tennant through the glass in Utopia was absolutely phenomenal. Barrowman got it just so! Oh damn it. Even his OTT "here we go again" shoot 'em up in LOTTL was fun. He was shooting from the crotch as only he can do. Leela for the men's men. Fab!

Martha - Sexy, stylish, warm, genuine. Freema seems to be all these things too. Sadly, another potential seasons worth of gradual, inspired character development was rushed & ruined by Russell's ridiculous end of season panto. They can't go back now though. Martha had her 'character development' in a 30 second montage of her trudging through sludge & sleet for 'a year'. Tut tus Russ! Now here's how to fix it...The finale was all a feverish dream; Martha was knocked out by a blow to the head by one of the futurekind in Utopia. Now take 2...Here's what REALLY happened...


That's it...

The Lucozer

DOCTOR WHO 2005/2006 - LUCOZER'S RATINGS

Hi folks,

The Co-Pilot & I would've dearly loved to have had our blog & myspace up & running as we witnessed the glitzy debut of the new series back in 2005 & as we nervously navigated the sterling peaks & slovenly troughs of the series thus far. Alas, our thoughts could only travel as far as across the loungeroom to each other & some like minded fellows during the first two seasons. Now that we may have some fresh ears for our thoughts to rattle in, I want to do a quick catch up. A very brief status check on our estimation of the stories so far...a score out of ten for each with a ONE LINE review!

Here's mine, The Co-Pilot's to follow soon....

2005

Rose - 6 / 10 (shallow & worrying)
End Of The World - 8 / 10 (above par intergalactic mardi gras)
Unquiet Dead - 8.5 / 10 (stylish fright in the dead of night)
Aliens Of London - 7 / 10 ("how about it love?")
WW3 - 5.5 / 10 ("not tonight dear!")
Dalek - 8 /10 (flashy but flawed)
Long Game - 6 / 10 (I already told you Rose, it's a wrecksuckocrapwhataboretous!)
Father's Day - 9 /10 (a 45 minute symphony of heart string plucking)
Empty Child - 9.5 / 10 (Dr Who!!!)
Doctor Dances - 9 /10 (menacing & masterful)
Boomtown - 6.5 / 10 (a fruity fart secretly enjoyed)
Bad Wolf - 9.5 / 10 (well tickle me fabulous!!)
Parting Of The Ways - 9 / 10 (Russell to a T. Davies!)

Christmas Invasion - 7.5 / 10 (luke warm egg nog)


2006

New Earth - 4.5 / 10 (a dry wretch from an empty stomach)
Tooth & Claw - 8 / 10 (there's life in the old queen yet!)
School Reunion - 7 / 10 (not MY Sarah Jane I'm afraid)
Girl In The Fireplace - 8.5 / 10 (intriguing & polished)
Age Of Steel - 7 / 10 (age of pig-iron maybe..or tinsel perhaps?)
Rise Of The Cybermen - 7 / 10 (moody moments, but not my Cybermen)
Idiot's Lantern - 6 / 10 (promising concept unfathomably ballsed up)
Impossible Planet - 8 / 10 (oooh!...a flash package on my doorstep!)
Satan Pit - 7.5 / 10 (vaguely disappointing contents of said package)
Love & Monsters - 6 / 10 ("lonely icing seeks cake, no time wasters please!")
Fear Her - 6 / 10 (see 'Idiot's Lantern')
Army Of Ghosts - 8.5 / 10 (brain setting...9 year old...Whooaw!!!)
Doomsday - 8.5 / 10 (ok ok...maybe just ONE more Iced Vo-Vo)

Runaway Bride - 6 / 10 (...for worse)


That's the lot then....

Love, The Lucozer....